One—This Week in NewsHounds Online(Aug. 24-29, 2009)
• Get acquainted with our Blackboard site and the NewsHoundsOnline blog.
• Read “Begin Here” orientation posts and syllabus closely.
• Quiz on syllabus will be emailed on Wednesday.
• Get acquainted with our Blackboard site and the NewsHoundsOnline blog.
• Read “Begin Here” orientation posts and syllabus closely.
• Quiz on syllabus will be emailed on Wednesday.
Read . . . . . . . . . . . .
• Today’s WORD on Journalism (you’ll get it by email every day); comments welcome.
• For inspiration, see Uncle Jay Explains the News or The Daily Show or The Colbert Report
• For inspiration, see Uncle Jay Explains the News or The Daily Show or The Colbert Report
• Harrower: pp. 2, 4; Ch. 1—“The Story of Journalism”
• What Is News?
• Newspapers/TV/Online news (every day)
• What Is News?
• Newspapers/TV/Online news (every day)
File . . . . . . . . . . .
• Interview yourself and do a news story. See directions at Week 1 Assignment—Report on YOU! Post it to the NewsTalk discussion page in Blackboard. Feel free to comment on each other’s stories (I will!). EXAMPLE: Go here for my own attempt at doing a story about myself. The goal is to provide both the essential information as well as details that hint at your subject’s (your) character/flavor/fascinating characteristics.
• News Quiz (click here for instructions)
• Basic stuff in any news story:
1. Name
2. Age
3. Status @ USU (major, role, basics)
4. Something interesting: hopes and dreams
5. Quotes. Quotes need to be interesting and pithy. (Ex: “I come from Tooele.” NO! That’s not a good quote. “I once fell out of a plane and landed on a pizza!” YES)
6. Follow-up. If your subject says she fell out of plane, you’d better follow up and ask for and explain the details!
7. Motivations. For this story, about a new(ish) student at USU, you should probably think about motivations—what your subject wants to do when s/he grows up, what excites/scares him/her about being at USU. Why s/he came here....
8. Anything else? What essential things about you haven’t I asked? (In this case, since you’re “interviewing” yourself, you probably have a better idea of these things than you would if you were interviewing a stranger...)
• Interview yourself and do a news story. See directions at Week 1 Assignment—Report on YOU! Post it to the NewsTalk discussion page in Blackboard. Feel free to comment on each other’s stories (I will!). EXAMPLE: Go here for my own attempt at doing a story about myself. The goal is to provide both the essential information as well as details that hint at your subject’s (your) character/flavor/fascinating characteristics.
• News Quiz (click here for instructions)
• Basic stuff in any news story:
1. Name
2. Age
3. Status @ USU (major, role, basics)
4. Something interesting: hopes and dreams
5. Quotes. Quotes need to be interesting and pithy. (Ex: “I come from Tooele.” NO! That’s not a good quote. “I once fell out of a plane and landed on a pizza!” YES)
6. Follow-up. If your subject says she fell out of plane, you’d better follow up and ask for and explain the details!
7. Motivations. For this story, about a new(ish) student at USU, you should probably think about motivations—what your subject wants to do when s/he grows up, what excites/scares him/her about being at USU. Why s/he came here....
8. Anything else? What essential things about you haven’t I asked? (In this case, since you’re “interviewing” yourself, you probably have a better idea of these things than you would if you were interviewing a stranger...)
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